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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables

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Article URL: https://ai-keys-leaks.begimher.com/

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Article URL: https://metastable.org/never-end/

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Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-tiny-celestial-body-past-pluto-shouldnt-have-an-atmosphere-but-astronomers-say-they-may-have-detected-one-180988690/

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I just had this idea, you read it all the time AI slop is so prevalent people are getting banned for a year for submitting science papers to arXiv with it, moans of angst from developers, even Microsoft doing its own study where AI degrades the quality of simple documents, and the beloved em-dash.

I don't really have the know-how or the time but it occurred to me, if we created a public data set that could be submitted to publicly, we could catalog and organize all the AI slop, the different types, with explanations about why it is slop and why not to do it, and then train a large language model using this data set included, to help correct itself.

I don't really know the technical details of training a large language model,is this even possible?

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Article URL: https://deciens.com/press-and-insights/epistula-14-the-hubris-of-timing

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Article URL: https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/

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Article URL: https://stanforddaily.com/2026/05/14/students-deserve-better-than-college/

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Replace em dashes on any website. Pick your replacement character and see which sites overuse them the most.

Tired of writers who think a 2-em-dash sentence like this makes them sound smarter?

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Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-san-francisco-headquarters-22259754.php

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Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai

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Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/consumerism/article-888680

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Ok, so maybe "how to revive the internet" would be more accurate, but if you're reading this, I got your attention, right? Here's why I want you to read on: I built a free extension, D-slop, to disincentivize anyone from posting AI writing, and eventually images and video as well, on the internet.

For writing, it checks known vocab and punctuation tells, as well as subtler tells related to cadence, and assigns it a score subject to an adjustable threshold. If the text fails, users have the option to flag offending text, hide it, or block the page entirely (with the option to see anyway).

For media, it's admittedly fairly weak, as it relies on C2PA metadata which is stripped from all of the social media sites where it would be most helpful. (Anyone else have chronically online boomer parents continually gobbling up slop like it's real information?)

I have a D-slop+ version in the works that should be able to handle the media itself, but it's going to have to make API calls to have real teeth, which means I can't offer it for free. If this extension validates the concept, I'm happy to build it for y'all.

Yes, I vibe-coded it, but an ancillary bonus to the project accrued when it inspired me to cook dinner listening to Metallica's "Fight Fire with Fire," which in turn brought my 5 y/o running into the kitchen with every musical instrument in the house for an impromptu karaoke speed metal session.

It's MIT license open-source, full brief at https://github.com/jared-the-automator/d-slop; This forum is full of people smarter than me, so I'm open to suggestions.

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Article URL: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows/copilot/understand-updates-to-the-copilot-key-on-windows-devices

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Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/rubin-tracks-skyscraper-size-asteroids-failed-supernovas-and-interstellar-visitors-20260515/

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Article URL: https://omna.dev/

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